what’s the end game? usa turns into a glorified colony of asia? foreign goverments are the financier of all the bailouts happening + there’s the foreign policy implications –> maybe china/russia will ultimately force us out of iraq because as large institutional shareholders of us of a debt, they’ll want that $10 billion/month spent paying them back for lehman/bear/fannie/freddie…….

sounds like this little known special interest ‘enron loophole’ is the cause of a lot of the buildup in oil speculation + rise in oil prices. “Up to 70% of oil trading is speculative”, i.e. day traders, banks and hedge funds. Maybe $25/barrel of oil prices is speculative.